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EGG CANDLER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I8. 1919.

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EGG CANDLER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 18. I9I9.

Patented June 29, 1920.

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cLYDE w. ELLIS, or woomauax, KENTUCKY.

EGG-CANDLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented une 29, 1920.

Application filed October 18, 1919; Serial No. 331,635.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, CLYDE W. ELLIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Woodbury, in the county of Butler and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Egg-Gandlers, of 'which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in egg candling devices and has for its object the provision of a candling device in the nature of a cabinet within which are disposedsources of light such as lamps or incandescent bulbs having associated therewith reflectors whereby light may be projected through suitable holes and through eggs to be tested whereby one or more operators, depending upon the number of sources of light, may ascertain the condition of eggs.

An important and more specific object is the provision of a device of this character including a cabinet in which is provided a plurality of compartments within each of which is disposable a lamp, each compartment being closed by a sliding cover which carries a projecting portion having two holes formed therein whereby it may be possible for a single operator to test two eggs at a time, the front of the cabinet being provided with an opening through which the eggs and the operators hand are inserted.

An additional object is the provision of a device of this character which will be very simple and inexpensive in manufacture, highly eflicient in use, durable in service, and a general improvement in the art.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view, the invention consists in the details of construction to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the device,

Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof with the parts in normal position,

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view,

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the sliding doors of the compartments closed, and

Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the sliding doors moved to open position.

Referring more particularly to the draw-- ings, I have shown the device as comprising a casing including a back wall 10, end walls 11, a top. 12, a bottom 13, a rigid front portion 14,-anda movable front portion 15.

Secured upon the inner sides of the top and bottom 12 and 13' are spaced strips 16 constituting guideways'and secured between these strips and the back wall 10 are partitions 17 which provide compartments 18 within the casing. Any number of partitions may be provided for forming any suitable number of compartments though in the present instance two are shown. Each compartment is designed for the reception of a lamp, shown conveniently at 19, and secured upon the bottom within each compartment is a plate-like'structure 2O suitably .recessed for holding the, lamp. Extending through the top 12 within each compartment 18 is a flue pipe 21 adapted to take care of the products of combustion from the lamps and each flue'pipe is provided with a flange 22 seating upon the top 12.

Each compartment 18 is provided with a cover plate 23 which is slidably mounted within the guideways formed by the strips 16 and each cover plate is provided with an opening 24 surrounded by an outwardly extending flange 25 which is covered by a plate 26 having a pair of circular holes 27 formed therein. Secured within each compartment is a reflector 28, for the purpose of throwing light from the lamp through the opening 24 and through the holes 27. It will also be noted that the flanges 25 may serve as handles and may be grasped by the operator for sliding the cover plates 23 for exposing the interiors of the compartments 18, for the purpose of removing the lamps for replenishing them with fuel or for any other purpose.

It will be observed that the movable portion of the front 15 is hingedly connected with the casing, as shown at 29, and is adapted to be held in closed position by means of spring catches 30 carried by the ends 11. The free edge of the movable front 15 is spaced from the edge of the rigid portion 14 whereby to provide an opening 31 extending the entire length of, v

eye piece 33 adapted to exclude external light from the eyes of theoperator while looking through an opening 32. 7

in the use of the device it will be seen that when the lamps are burning and the covers 23 are in position in front of" the compartments, light will be reflected from the reflectors 28 and through the holes 27. Each operator places his face against the eye piece 33 and gazes through the associated opening 32 toward the holes 27, the

operator also inserting one or both hands, and the eggs to be tested, through the open ing 31, so that the eggs will be disposed in front of the holes 27. I From the foregoing description and a study of the drawings it will be apparent that I have thus provided a very simple egg candling device which will be inexpensive in construction and operation and by means of which any suitable number of operators may work at the same time testing eggs, each operator being capable of testing simultaneously, two eggs, one being preferably held in each hand.

Having thus described my invention, I claim: V

. A. cabinet of the character described comprising a casing including a back, ends,

a top, a bottom, a plurality of partitions arranged within said casing and defining compartments therein, avlamp disposed Within each compartment, a reflector behind each lamp, a flue pipe extending through said top into each compartment above the lamp therein, a pair of spaced strips securedupon the inside of the top and bottom and defining guides, cover plates slidable within plate provided with a pair of openings, an

inclined front on said casing provided with openings opposite the openings in said cover plate, eye pieces surrounding said last named openings, and said front of said casing having an opening permittingthe insrtion of eggs and the operators hands.

2. A device of the character described comprising a casing having a portion of its front Wall rigid and a portion hinged, said hinged portion being inclined and having its free edge spaced from the edge of said rigid portion whereby to define an opening extending the full length of the casing,

' means for securing said hinged portion in closed position, partitions within said casing defining a plurality of compartments, illuminating means within each compartment, a slidable cover plate disposed across the front ofeach compartment and having an opening, and said movable front portion of the casing having formed therein openings corresponding in number to the number of compartments and surrounded by eye pieces.

In testnnony whereof I afiix signature.

CLYDE W. ELLIS. 

